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IPM1035, New September 2016

Pest Management for Home Lawns

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Bruce Barrett
Division of Plant Sciences

Brad Fresenburg
Division of Plant Sciences

Lee Miller
Division of Plant Sciences

In addition to providing a place to relax and play, lawns are beneficial in preventing soil erosion, reducing animal and insect pests, and cooling the landscape around a home. Like all plants, however, lawn turfgrasses are susceptible to pest pressure from weeds, diseases and insects.

This pocket-size manual familiarizes homeowners and lawn care professionals with the pest problems that may be encountered in a home lawn and provides information on the most sustainable and integrated management solutions for those problems. It contains descriptions and photos to aid in identification of turfgrasses and the most common lawn weeds, diseases and insects. In addition, it includes tables that indicate the degree of control provided by herbicides, fungicides and insecticides labeled for use on residential lawns.

Topics

Aeration

Annual bluegrass

Aphids

Ascochyta leaf blight

Barnyardgrass

Bedstraw

Bermudagrass characteristics

Billbugs

Black medic

Broadleaf plantain

Broadleaf weeds

Broadleaves

Brown patch

Buckhorn plantain

Buffalograss characteristics

Carolina geranium

Carpetweed

Chinch bugs

Common chickweed

Common lawn diseases

Common lawn insects

Common lawn weeds

Common lespedeza

Common plantain

Common purslane

Crabgrass

Cultural controls for lawns

Dallisgrass

Dandelion

Deadnettle

Dollar spot

Fall armyworms

Fall panicum

Fertility

Fine-leaf fescue characteristics

Foxtails

Fungicides

Fungicides labeled for use on residential lawns

Goosegrass

Grass anatomy

Grasslike weeds

Grassy weeds

Gray leaf spot

Ground ivy

Growth habit

Henbit

Herbicides

Insecticides

Insecticides labeled for use on residential lawns

Kentucky bluegrass characteristics

Kentucky bluegrass diseases

Large patch

Lifecycles of common lawn weeds

Ligule

Management practices for insects

Morphological characteristics of major turfgrass species

Moss

Mouseear chickweed

Mowing

Nimblewill

Perennial ryegrass characteristics

Planting

Prostrate knotweed

Prostrate spurge

Protecting pollinators

Pythium blight

Sedge control herbicides and sedge control and turfgrass tolerance ratings

Sedges

Shepherd's-purse

Speedwell

Summer patch

Tall fescue characteristics

Tall fescue diseases

Turfgrass identification

Turfgrass tolerance to pereemergence herbicides

Watering

Weed control ratings for postemergence broadleaf herbicides

Weed identification

White clover

White grubs

Wild garlic

Wild onion

Wild violets

Yellow nutsedge

Yellow woodsorrel

Zoysiagrass characteristics

Zoysiagrass diseases

Pages

100

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